In the past couple of months I’ve found my house swarmed with plastic shopping bags. Although I use cloth bags when I do my grocery shopping, those plastic bags still sneak into my home somehow. I keep plastic shopping bags around because we use them to line trash cans. In the past I’ve stored the plastic shopping bags in…
Sometime in the midst of our 5 moves in 6 years, I decided that it wasn’t wise to buy a bin that fit perfectly in a kitchen only to find that it wouldn’t fit at all in the next kitchen. It felt wasteful and was definitely annoying. I purchased a few small, multi-purpose bins that…
Organize with a repurposed Earring Holder made from a repurposed dish mat and a frame for $2-$3 from the dollar store.
You’ve completed the first steps of setting up your kitchen in a new home. Now it’s time to tackled the rest of the kitchen. Grab your Setting Up Your New Kitchen Checklist and let’s get to work. How to Set Up Your Kitchen – Part 2 Second Phase: 4. I locate pot holders, hot pads and…
Last weekend my son had a soccer tournament. That meant many hours outside in the great outdoors in June. I had grabbed the sunscreen from the bucket I have by our back door and thought I was prepared. But withing 10 minutes of setting up our homestead of chairs, cooler bag, canvas bag of snacks and…
Tips to help you find your new home whether you’re moving across town, the country or the world. Tips from 20+ military moves experience.
Before Shoe storage is always an issue for our family where ever we move. We take our shoes off before we enter the house and so with 5 of us, it’s critical to have an area to store a lot of shoes. The 5 of us have close to 50 pairs of shoes PLUS athletic shoes…
A couple of weeks ago my friend, Karen, gave me a box of doggie breath mints that she thought my dog might like. Should I have been offended? Nah, all I saw was a crafting opportunity. I grabbed the Mod Podge and decorative paper and quickly got to work. After covering the top with the decorative paper, I thought…
At this point, I have narrowed my focus down to 1-2 towns. My goal now is to find areas within those towns where we’d like to live. I’m NOT trying to find THE house yet. I’m continuing to narrow the entire world of possibilities down to a handful. I start by looking at houses…
Our downstairs bathroom has no cabinets for storage. After almost two years, I still hadn’t found the right place or way to store the clean hand towels. I didn’t want to store them upstairs in the linen closet since we need them in the downstairs bathroom. I didn’t want buy a cabinet or shelf for…